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The gathering stage for the new-look Countries Association is finished.
The competition will continue one year from now with the knockout stages, in addition to transfer and advancement end of the season games.
BBC Game investigates who has arrived at the quarter-finals, who has been advanced and consigned, and what's left to be chosen.
The eight groups through to the following stage are:
Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.
The draw for the quarter-finals will occur in Nyon, Switzerland on Friday, 22 November.
The victors of the last-eight ties will advance to the Countries Association Finals competition, with semi-finals and a last in June.
Advancement/transfer end of the season games will happen in Spring.
These ties will see the groups who completed third in Association A playing two-legged ties against second-put sides from Association B, with champ of those assumes taking position in Association A.
In the mean time, the third-place groups in Association B will confront the second-set sides in Association C, with victors getting their place in Association B.
At last, the two countries who finish base in Association C with the best record will play the sprinters up of Association D.
Association A/B end of the season games: Austria, Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Scotland, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Association B/C end of the season games: Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo or Romania, Republic of Ireland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Association C/D end of the season games: Gibraltar, Latvia, Luxembourg and Malta.
Northern Ireland top C3, which allows them essentially an opportunity, however Scotland are not in that frame of mind to help a play-off spot through the Countries Association.
The four groups who get into the end of the season games by means of the Countries Association will be placed in with the 12 groups who finish second in their Reality Cup qualifying gatherings - with four spots for 2026 available to anyone.
Seedings for the World Cup qualifying gatherings will generally be chosen by Fifa world rankings - and not Countries Association wraps up.
The exemption is that the favorites will be long of the groups who finish in the main two of each Association A gathering - in addition to the four top nations by world rankings.
Britain's reality positioning of fourth, third in Europe, implies they are almost certain to be favored picks in spite of not having been in Association A.
Ribs returned quickly from an early Andri Gudjohnsen objective in Cardiff to get four past Iceland and leap to initially put in their gathering.
"It's something we set off on a mission to do," Grains' Liam Cullen told Sgorio.
"We realized we had no control over what was happening in the Turkey game, yet we truly needed to put our stamp on this game and dominate convincingly, so that's what truly glad that we've done."
Cullen scored a twofold to place the hosts in front by half-time, before Brennan Johnson and Harry Wilson put the seal on the match inside the last half-hour.
Grains required triumph to get any opportunity of getting programmed advancement to Association A, however they required Montenegro's bombshell of Turkey to guarantee that spot with a one-point cradle.
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